jQuery starts with selector

Here's my code:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function () {
        $("[class^=\"hide\"]").hide();
    });
</script>

<div class="hide1">H开发者_如何学运维ide</div>
<div class="show1">Show</div>
<div class="hide2">Hide</div>
<div class="show2">Show</div>
<div class="hide3">Hide</div>
<div class="show3">Show</div>
<div class="hide4">Hide</div>
<div class="show4">Show</div>

But on page load, the hide divs are still visible... what am I doing wrong?

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Wow... I feel so stupid. I spent so much time banging my head against a wall, and only discover the solution after I post here...

So turns out I was doing everything correctly, but the divs were in a View (I'm using MVC3) that was being loaded after $(document).ready was being called. Moving the code into the View solved the problem.

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Why do you have separate classes for those? Why not have a single hide class and set those attributes above (e.g. "hide1") as ids, then your selector can simply be on that class e.g. $('div.hide')?

See http://jsfiddle.net/2GzpA/1/ for an example.

EDIT:
For your question, you comment:

@Tomgrohl well my code is actually much more complicated. I need to be able to hide and show each div individually.

Why not add a separate class to use for this case? Then your selector becomes $('div.specificCaseHideClass'). You can have as many classes as you like and this is a fine example of when to add one.

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try this its simple

$("div:even").hide();

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Are you sure that jquery is included? This seems to work: http://jsfiddle.net/6ycbT/

Also, check your js console to see if any errors are getting thrown that might prevent this code from executing

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switch out the outer quotes by single quotes and it works:

working fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/geertvdc/hv4Ls/

code:

$('[class^="hide"]').hide();

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You can do :

$(document).ready(function () {
    $("div[class*=hide]").hide();
});